BlockMartins Crossroads, Georgia
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Shellman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 39886. The Survey maps it on the Martins Crossroads quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1953 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Martins Crossroads quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
173 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 173 fires within 5 miles of Martins Crossroads between 1992 and 2020, burning about 947 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 14 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 114 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 23 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 14 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | 6.2 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2017-RANDOLPH-002 |
| 7 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2017-RANDOLPH-004 |
| 7 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 2.2 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2017-RANDOLPH-003 |
| 26 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2017-RANDOLPH-006 |
| 26 September 2005 | Smoking | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 September 2010 | Natural | 1.4 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-RANDOLPH-012 |
| 24 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.6 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Martins Crossroads in 1 storm report in 2016: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Martins Crossroads | - | A tree was blown down on Highway 41 South. |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Goffs Mill | 3.1 miles | 7 | |
| Shellman | 4.3 miles | 7 | |
| Five Points | 4.3 miles | 7 | |
| Aycock Mill | 4.3 miles | 7 | |
| Pachitla | 5.1 miles | 7 | |
| Shivers Mill | 5.5 miles | 7 | |
| Grubb (historical) | 7.3 miles | 7 | |
| Carnegie | 8.3 miles | 7 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326387. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.